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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1648423" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>Nesikep</p><p>I'm going to show your pressure sensor suggestions to my husband. He is the plumber around here. You are saying we might be able to detect excessive demand right at the pump house and somehow get notification? That would be great. Neither of us is all that computer savvy, so building our own device won't happen. Low tech solutions are more our skill set. </p><p>It is maybe 1/4 to 1/3 mile from the highest tank to the pump house and a couple hundred more to our house. There is about 200 feet drop in elevation. I don't know where my brain was when I said we can see it from the house. I can see the road heading that way, but it is a long ways down the hill and around the corner to the tank, with plenty of trees in the way. You can see it from a spot on the driveway near the barns, but it looks tiny from there. Seeing a flag or ball would probably be difficult with old eyes. We drive by it almost everyday in the RTV, so checking daily isn't the issue, but it would really be nice to get away for a few days and not have to check.</p><p></p><p>We were leaving the valve from the well to the tank open all the time so it was activated whenever the float in the storage tank demanded water. However we started having issues with the pressure sensors and it would short out power to the well. This would mean no water to the house also. We did not know if the well was failing or just the electrical box in the pump-house was having issues. My husband thinks it is the electrical box and plans to replace that. Today he is working on a break in the pipe where it ran under a ranch road between the pump house and the closest storage tank. There is always something. The lines are all underground and finding problems can be an issue. The extreme drought has caused the soil to crack and move.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p><p>Your system sounds much like our original setup from years ago. It ran on solar to a shallow well and would shut off when it detected low water. The well's output was inadequate for our needs in summer, so we would also haul water from another location and dump it into the storage tank. Our big problem with our current set-up is that if there is a break somewhere, such as the 3/4" PVC pipe that runs to the stock tanks from the storage tanks, it can drain the whole system in just hours and refilling can take days or put a huge demand on the well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1648423, member: 9933"] Nesikep I'm going to show your pressure sensor suggestions to my husband. He is the plumber around here. You are saying we might be able to detect excessive demand right at the pump house and somehow get notification? That would be great. Neither of us is all that computer savvy, so building our own device won't happen. Low tech solutions are more our skill set. It is maybe 1/4 to 1/3 mile from the highest tank to the pump house and a couple hundred more to our house. There is about 200 feet drop in elevation. I don't know where my brain was when I said we can see it from the house. I can see the road heading that way, but it is a long ways down the hill and around the corner to the tank, with plenty of trees in the way. You can see it from a spot on the driveway near the barns, but it looks tiny from there. Seeing a flag or ball would probably be difficult with old eyes. We drive by it almost everyday in the RTV, so checking daily isn't the issue, but it would really be nice to get away for a few days and not have to check. We were leaving the valve from the well to the tank open all the time so it was activated whenever the float in the storage tank demanded water. However we started having issues with the pressure sensors and it would short out power to the well. This would mean no water to the house also. We did not know if the well was failing or just the electrical box in the pump-house was having issues. My husband thinks it is the electrical box and plans to replace that. Today he is working on a break in the pipe where it ran under a ranch road between the pump house and the closest storage tank. There is always something. The lines are all underground and finding problems can be an issue. The extreme drought has caused the soil to crack and move. Ken Your system sounds much like our original setup from years ago. It ran on solar to a shallow well and would shut off when it detected low water. The well's output was inadequate for our needs in summer, so we would also haul water from another location and dump it into the storage tank. Our big problem with our current set-up is that if there is a break somewhere, such as the 3/4" PVC pipe that runs to the stock tanks from the storage tanks, it can drain the whole system in just hours and refilling can take days or put a huge demand on the well. [/QUOTE]
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